Note: This story was dynamically reformatted for online reading convenience. title: Tao One author: tim4or5 universe: paying attention part: 27.1 summary: What if the Tao Te Ching were a sex manual? keywords: MF, cons notice: This story contains sexually explicit material. copyright: 2018 all rights reserved. Tao One 1 Words are not true. One girl is not the same as another. One is short with red hair, gray eyes, freckles all over, listens well and can come several times. Another is tall with blond hair, deep blue eyes, pink nipples, strong thighs, and is loud and aggressive. One has long black hair, dark eyes, olive skin, large breasts, and is quiet but says what she means. Another is medium height with wavy brown hair, fair skin, eyes with green centers, medium size breasts, and is intelligent but has strange ideas. One word can not indicate them all. I am not my name. It is just a sequence of sounds or letters. I do not know how everything started, but I know where I came from. If I let things be, they are all one. If I do something, I see what each is. But I do not know the difference between these two. *Being a live in housekeeper for four young women is tiring, but I get every other thursday night off. That is when the two whose bed it is my turn to sleep in stay over with their boyfriends, and I only have to take care of the kids during the day. If I sleep with Pamela and Kim two nights in a row it throws the whole schedule off. We tried it and decided this is better. 2 If I say you are beautiful, does this mean anything? One thing can not be good unless another is bad. Something and nothing, soft and hard, sound and silence, these define each other. Awareness creates existence, but the act has no meaning. Let it go. It is enough that I am here with you now. *I will stay with you always. 3 Do not show me expensive goods. Not having too much calms my heart. All we need is a firm penis and a full belly. Let us stay innocent and avoid the clever. *Let us accept what is real and not make up reasons that soothe our egos. Things do not need explanations. 4 Tao is empty yet always full. Deeper than the many creatures. It blunts the sharp, frees the tangle, dims the bright, lays the dust. It takes you to a place that not exist. Older than the source. *You expose your tangle, open your mind, and take me deep within your emptiness. 5 The world sees the many creatures as empty. The Sage sees the people as empty. The world is empty yet always working to produce more. Words lead to silence. Better to be still. *Listen to the cicadas, feel the heat. 6 The valley spirit never dies. She is the Dark Lady and gives birth to all things, does not exist yet never fails. *Marge had a child with her boyfriend, Pamela had one with me. 7 The world lasts since it does not give itself life. The Sage places herself last and so comes first, does not think of herself and gets what she wants. *You pretend not to like sex as much as you do, and since I do not push, end up having to take the initiative. This does not bother either of us much. 8 Be like water. Since water helps the many creatures without contending and settles in low places, it is near Tao. In a bed, firmness matters, in the heart, depth. In a partner, kindness matters, in words, truth, in running things, order, in work, attention, in action, patience. It does not contend so is never at fault. *A willingness to accept responsibility leads to fewer mistakes. 9 Stop before you overindulge, abuse your partner, lose your health. Do what you need to do. *It is enough. 10 Can you balance your dark aspect and the One? Breathe like a newborn? Restore your true heart? Can you lead, accept and discern without effort? Tao gives life without owning and guides without force. This is dark virtue. *All four consider themselves sisters but their love not incest. Being the same age makes them all twins. 11 I join thirty spokes to a hub, knead clay to form a vessel, cut out doors and windows to make a room. These are of use because they are empty. We gain something from nothing. *My hand wanders over your belly, seeking your hidden emptiness. 12 Five colors blind, five notes deafen, five tastes tire. Hunting maddens, expensive goods trap. The Sage fills her belly, not her eye. She leaves one and takes the other. *My fingers taste the joy of your sliminess. 13 Favor and disgrace startle, high regard and self create trouble. What? Gaining or losing favor causes fear. Without high regard or self I have no trouble. Value your partner more than running things and you can be trusted. *Marge and Sandy will have sex without a boy but not without each other. They consider themselves neither lesbian nor bisexual. Their love has its own meaning. Tao Two 14 You can not see it, hear it, or touch it. Above not light, below not dark, it returns to nothing. Before no front, behind no back, it is not there. Know the origin, know this moment, know Tao. *A wave of ecstasy fills you as you clutch my body and thrust at me. We are everything. 15 Old Taoists were subtle, dark, deep, profound. Too deep to know, we find hints. Cautious, as if treading stones in a winter stream. Hesitant, as if fearing others. Polite like a guest, falling apart like soft ice, plain like the unformed, vacant like a valley, thick like muddy water. When muddy, can you settle and become clear? When asleep, can you stir and come to life? I hold Tao and do not become sated, am worn yet new. *You relax in my arms, open your eyes, and glisten in the light. 16 Be still my heart. Remain empty. Watch the many creatures rise and return, each to his roots. This is stillness, the constant, clarity. Woe to him who wilfully innovates while ignorant of the constant. If from knowledge of the constant, my actions will be unselfish and lead to Tao and perpetuity. To the end of my days I will meet no danger. *I stir within you and feel the energy rise. I return from whence I came. 17 The best partner does not expose herself to the people. Next is a partner they admire, next one they fear, next one they take advantage of. Without faith there is no truth. Patient, she uses few words. When her task is complete, you say it just happened. *You are my truth. 18 Without Tao there are charity and gossip, with cleverness, deceit. With bad leaders there is loyalty, with bad relations, love is a weapon. *Some people are best avoided. 19 Discard the wise, benefit greatly. Discard charity, find respect. Discard profit, no more thieves. If these three are not enough, find and hold the unformed, have no self and few desires. *Some things are best avoided. 20 Between yes and no, good and evil, how great a distance? What must I fear? Others are happy with food and outings, I am quiet and alone. Others have more than enough. I am confused, they are sharp. I am tired and drifting, never full. Others have plans, I am strangely blank. *I stare into your strange colorless eyes. 21 Great virtue follows only Tao. Tao is dark and vague, yet within is an image, an essence. The essence is real. From now back to forever it had a name. It shows the source. Why is that? This. *Your milk is sweeter than Pamela's, but there seems to be just as much of it. 22 Bent then straight, worn then new. A little helps, too much confuses. So you hold the One and become an example. You do not show off so are noticed, do not act right so have merit, do not boast so endure. You do not contend, so I do not contend with you. Bent then straight is true, so we hold each other and continue to the end. *Once again I fill you with my seed. You accept it all. 23 You say use few words, be natural. A rough wind does not last the morning. A downpour does not last all day. If these do not last, how can I? I will follow Tao. Following Tao, virtue or loss, I find whichever I seek. Without faith there is no truth. *Your lips and tongue are my delight. 24 To tiptoe or stride is unsteady. If I show off I will not be noticed, act right I will have no merit, boast I will not endure. These are unnecessary excitements and wasteful. They are not Tao. *I feel the hardness of your nipple, the softness of your breast. 25 There is a dark confusion, formed before the world. Silent and empty, alone and unchanging, always turning, it could be the mother of all. Its name unknown, I call it Tao. It is great, receding, far off, and turning back. We depend on the world, the world on Tao, Tao on its own nature. *My eyes feast on the fullness of your body. I try to read the patterns strewn across it. Tao Three 26 Heavy supports light, still controls active. When she travels, the Sage watches her surroundings. After reaching safety she becomes still. If a partner acts lightly he loses support, if nervous he loses control. *Towering over you by a good inch, I stare down into your deep blue eyes. My hand seeks the blond curls of pubic hair that the hem of your nightshirt fails to cover. 27 If I excel in travel I leave to tracks, if in speech I make no slips, if in counting I use no marks. If I excel in binding I use no cords, yet what I have bound can not be loosed. The Sage excels in saving and abandons nothing and no one. This is clarity. The teacher learns from the good and works on the bad. Not to value the teacher or the work seems clever, but it reveals confusion. This is essential and secret. *As I work on your thighs and buttocks I feel the muscles relax, the knots dissolve. 28 Know the male but remain with the female, know honor but remain in the shadows. Be a ravine to the world and your virtue will be enough. Return to the source, the limitless, the unformed, and shatter into all things without injury. *My penis probes deep within you. Your womb has moved up out of the way. The pressure builds, and I feel you tremble as my hot cum splashes against the rear wall of your vagina. 29 Whoever does anything to the world will lose it. Some things are strong and some weak, some destroy and some are destroyed. So the Sage avoids both extremes and arrogance. *Make the two one, so that the outside goes inside and the inside comes outside. Make a new image in your own image. 30 Assist a partner with Tao, not force. Force rebounds. Brambles and bad harvests follow soldiers. Complete a task but do not boast or intimidate. This is not Tao. *Zhou dreamt he was a butterfly, fluttering about joyfully from flower to flower. 31 Even if beautiful, weapons cause harm. Be reluctant to use them. The left takes precedence at home, the right during war. Do not glory in victory or exult in destruction. The world will not trust you. Weep when people are injured, mourn when victorious. *Zhou awoke, and there he was, a startled Zhou. 32 Tao is nameless. The unformed is small yet the world can not claim it. If leaders can hold it, the many creatures transform, the world unites, and people find peace. When it is cut there are names, so it is time to stop and avoid danger. The world returns to Tao as rivers flow to the sea. *Was Zhou dreaming he was a butterfly? Or was a butterfly dreaming it was Zhou? 33 Know and overcome yourself, be content and endure. *Are not Zhou and a butterfly two different things? 34 Tao is broad, reaching left and right. The many creatures depend on it, it feeds them yet claims no authority. Free from desire it is small, yet claiming no authority makes it great. *Thomas said, Master, my mouth will not say what you are like. Jesus said, I am not your master. 35 Hold the great image and the world will rest in safety and peace. Music and food let travelers pause. Tao is not tasted, seen or heard yet never stops providing. *Celebrate yourself. Find what was never lost. 36 To weaken something first strengthen it, to lay something aside first pick it up, to take from something first give to it. This is subtle clarity. Tools of power must not be revealed. *We give ourselves to each other. We are nothing. 37 Tao never acts yet leaves nothing undone. If leaders can hold it, the many creatures transform. When desire rises, the unformed pushes it down. Afterward I become still, and the world is at peace. *When I push down into you, and when my inside comes outside, I can not say if I am me, dreaming I am you, or if I am you, dreaming you are me. -- Quotes in 29 and 34 from Sohl, Gospel according to Zen p71 and p58. Quote in 29 also from Meyer, Gospel of Thomas p35. Quotes in 30 to 33 from Ziporyn, Zhuangzi p21.